Original acrylic painting on linen canvas by local artist Chris Bruce

This painting will be on show at the Affordable Art Fair in Hampstead from 6th - 10th May. If purchased online please wait for at least a week after the last date of the fair for fullfillment.

Title: Carnival 

Dimensions: 40 x 40cm

Medium: Acrylic on linen canvas 

About The Painting

This painting is loosely based on folklore practices as well a traditional celebratory processions - from Rio to Notting Hill. It alludes to the latent eroticism of these events, to ‘guising’ and to the transmutation of identity. 

About The Artist

Chris Bruce lives and works in Cornwall. He has a BA in Fine Art from Cheltenham Art College (2002), and an MA in Contemporary Visual Art from Falmouth University (2008). He would classify himself as a narrative artist, concerned with various forms of story-telling and the populist tropes of the contemporary political conversation. His work has appeared in the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Exhibition (20 & 21), the Wells Art Contemporary (22 & 25), the Jackson’s Art Prize (Acrylic Prize 24) and the John Ruskin Prize (25). In addition to his painting & drawing practice, he posts political cartoons on Instagram and in online news publications (@bruce_works15). 

With his practice spanning painting, drawing, and political cartooning, his work is rooted in an exploration of pareidolia - the human tendency to find patterns and stories within chaos. In his paintings, figures and subjects emerge gradually through layers of mark-making, the composition evolving iteratively until a story reveals itself.

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